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June 18,
2006
The
Decisions Are Killing Me
During
the Great Depression there was a man who was desperate to
find a way to feed his wife and children. Finally with no
other recourse he went to a nearby potato farm in search of
some kind of work.
He
knocked on the door of the farmer, explained his situation,
and asked if there was anything – anything at all – that he
could do on the farm. The farmer felt the man’s desperation
so he searched his mind for some kind of job he could give
him. Finally he said, “Come with me.” He took the man out
to a long conveyor belt that carried the potatoes and told
him, “This is simple, just put the large potatoes in the
crate on the left and the small ones in the crate on the
right.”
After
only a few hours, there was another knock on the door and
the farmer was surprised to see the man from the morning
standing there. “Thank you very much for trying to help me
but I have to quit,” the man nervously blurted out. “But
why,” asked the farmer. The man replied, “I just can’t do
it that job. The decisions are killing me!”
Let’s
face it. Some people are really good at making decisions
and others, well… Or maybe you are great at making huge,
life-altering decisions but deciding what to have for lunch
is a stress-inducer for you. Or you could be someone who
makes decisions everyday in work but can’t make and keep
a simple decision to take care of your health.
Sometimes, the closer the decision is to you, the harder it
is or maybe you freeze when you know your decision will
affect others.
Making
decisions can be super easy, deeply troubling, or any level
of ease or difficulty in-between, depending on a variety of
factors such as, knowing what you really want,
knowing how to get your hands on the right
information, how in touch you are with your true intuition,
role-models you’ve had, your own general patterns of
thinking, your level of optimism or pessimism, personal
experience (too much or too little, good or bad), and much
more.
Unfortunately or fortunately our lives are primarily
a reflection and accumulation of the decisions we make. If
you’ve made some decisions in the past that didn’t turn out
precisely as you had hoped, learn from them, move on, and be
ready
to apply the learning to future decisions.
Almost every person I know feels better on the other side
of a decision. The process of making a decision can be
one of the greatest stresses you face in your life or it can
be the thing that frees you to have, do, be, and create what
you really want! Depending on the decision, it could take
10 minutes or ten years but remember this. Your dreams,
desires, and goals will only be realized when you step up,
when you decide. Not a wimpy, change-with-the-wind decision
but one that is backed up with commitment, with resolve.
Don't let the decisions
beat you down. Take charge of them and you'll find that
life will take on a new energy and vitality.
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